About Pailin Wedel

Pailin Wedel is a Thai-American visual journalist based in Bangkok, Thailand, and often in Yangon, Myanmar. She has been covering Southeast Asia, where she grew up, for the past eight years exploring the clash between faith, tradition and modernity. Her work has been published by National Geographic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Monocle. You can follow her reporting journeys on her Instagram account @pailiner.